Douglas farah is the president of national security consulting firm, ibi consultants, and a senior visiting fellow at national defense universitys center for complex operations. His early days are a mystery, said douglas farah, a senior fellow at the international assessment and strategy center who coauthored a book on bout. Blood diamonds and sierra leone flashcards quizlet. In unprecedented detail, farah traces the movement of money from the traffickers of blood diamonds in west africa to the world diamond exchange in belgium and homegrown money merchants in saudi arabia, dubai, karachi, and lahore who turn cash into commodities and commodities into cash. Blood from stones is the first book to uncover, through ontheground reporting. It is very easy to take diamonds to antwerp and sell them, or to have your. His discovery that al qaeda was funneling their dollars for conflict diamonds so that the bush not the. Global witness, after first alerting the world to the horror of blood diamonds in 1998, has worked closely with pac on the campaign to stop diamonds funding war. Blood diamonds is the story of how, in this 21st century, a group of political extremists using religion as the foundation of their ideology, work tirelessly to unleash terror on america and its allies.
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